X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=dgit-sponsorship.7.pod;h=9eecec09ca120cb53ce76c24fb98ecfe477ed9d5;hp=8d5b72daa2de1e42b11820c132cda72c260d3ce9;hb=a5a52f9261110b7b983d20b0a6ad04b6e69650ce;hpb=7a90399d56b947280d1e396bba6d7f28f7f3ed73 diff --git a/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod b/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod index 8d5b72da..9eecec09 100644 --- a/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod +++ b/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ against the sponsorship-requests pseudo-package. The sponsee should push their HEAD as a git branch to any suitable git server. They can use their own git server; -alioth is another possibility. +salsa is another possibility. The branch names used by the sponsee on their local machine, and on the server, do not matter. @@ -257,6 +257,14 @@ you may need to pass C<--overwrite> to dgit. +Alternatively, +if this was the first ever dgit push of the package, +you can pass C<--deliberately-not-fast-forward> +instead of C<--overwrite>. +This avoids introducing a new origin commit +into the dgit view of +the sponsee's git history +which is unnecessary and could be confusing. =head1 SPONSORING A NON-GIT-USING SPONSEE